Instructor: Irina Neacsu

Irina Neacsu
 Irina Neacsu is a Romanian botanical artist based in Transylvania. Currently, she is a Fulbright grantee at Yale University, within the History of Art department, where she conducts research on tree portraiture in the age of Romanticism.

Her interest in both botanical art practice and research evolves around cultural landscapes and historical intersections between nature and culture. She has been granted an artist in residency at Oak Spring Garden Foundation in 2022 and 2023 and at Denver Botanic Gardens in 2022. Irina won the silver gilt medal at the RHS in 2022and the ASBA Esther Plotnick Award in 2023. She published her first book on Transylvanian flora and culture in 2024, a year divided between academic teaching in the Architecture University in Bucharest and field work for the book across Transylvania.

Her artistic endeavor stretches across various mediums: graphite, dry brush watercolor, pen and ink, stitching, and collage.

Her latest solo show has been exhibited in the Abingdon Museum of Art (VA) and Reece Museum (TN) and approached a botanical identitary dialogue between the Appalachians and the Carpathians.

Classes by this instructor


Spring Flowers in Graphite and Dry Brush Watercolor

Join award-winning Romanian botanical artist Irina Neacsu for a three-day workshop that explores the techniques of mixing graphite and dry brush watercolor to achieve an expressive composition. Using a variety of seasonal flower specimens, you'll analyze the subject's creative narrative more...
254BIL517 04/25 Fr 10:00am-4:00pm Neacsu
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